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Church of St Luke

A Grade II Listed Building in Wallsend, North Tyneside

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9905 / 54°59'25"N

Longitude: -1.5335 / 1°32'0"W

OS Eastings: 429947

OS Northings: 566308

OS Grid: NZ299663

Mapcode National: GBR KBQQ.SV

Mapcode Global: WHC3L.FT0L

Plus Code: 9C6WXFR8+5J

Entry Name: Church of St Luke

Listing Date: 18 August 1947

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1025335

English Heritage Legacy ID: 303417

ID on this website: 101025335

Location: Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE28

County: North Tyneside

Electoral Ward/Division: Wallsend

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wallsend

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Wallsend St Peter and St Luke

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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Description



NZ 26 NE
6/168
18.8.47

WALLSEND
STATION ROAD (west side)

Church of St. Luke

II

G.V.
Parish church. 1885-87 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood; 1895 west vestries; 1906
tower, chancel and lady chapel; land given by G.B. Hunter. Rock-faced snecked
sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with flat
stone gable copings.4-bay aisled nave with west porch and vestries; north-east
tower; south transept; apsed chancel and south lady chapel. Early English style.
Central west double door; plate-traceried 3-light west aisle windows; triple
aisle lancets and stepped triple clerestory lancets; 8-foil west window above 2
similar groups; 5 stepped east lancets. 3-stage tower. 3-light north window
in high first stage; lancets above and Y-traceried belfry openings. Corbel table and
panelled parapet; shallow set-back buttresses. Nave bellcote. Interior: painted
plaster with ashlar dressings. Boarded kingpost roofs. Dog-tooth moulding to round
nave arcade piers. Open arches to chancel, lady chapel and tower organ chamber;
paired columns to lady chapel; 2 steps to chancel, 2 to sanctuary.and 2 to altar.
Glass in north aisle by Baguley, Newcastle; west window in north aisle
as South African War Memorial; east window first World War Memorial by Wilhelmina
Geddes of Dublin.


Listing NGR: NZ 29947 66308


This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.

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